Intel, the world’s biggest semiconductor development company, has decided to make a new series of hard disk drives that will offer double the storage space than current offerings. It will make eight new drives that could hold up to 320GB data. The consumers will be able to get them in the fourth quarter this year. The Intel Corporation has decided to make such a move so that it can capture the emerging market for chip based storage devices in its early stages.

Intel’s ongoing venture with Micron Technology Inc. (that was started in 2005) will be the base of the new project. Micron Technology Inc. will make NAND Flash memory. The chips will be manufactured using the Intel’s most advanced manufacturing technology, i.e. 32-nanometer production. The company believes that the flash technology will completely replace the current mechanical hard disk drives, like the Samsung SpinPoint F1 1TB, in both portable computing machines as well as in desktops. Apart from the new hard drives the company will is also looking forward to launch some other goodies for the computing professionals. It will release a new processor that will be able to process complex graphics of its own. No need to add a dedicated graphic card. Apart from this the company is aiming at development of 16GB flash memory to incredibly fasten the boot up time and enhance the PC reflexes. The processor is codenamed the Intel Havendale and the flash will be known as Braidwood and are expected to hit the consumer markets in the first quarter of 2010.

The most frightening and frustrating moment for any PC user is when he looses all his data during a HDD crash. So, to avoid this in the future he promises to himself that he will always take the backup of all his data onto an external drive, but as soon as he tries to do this, he find the whole process time consuming and complicated.

But now there’s an easy solution for these kinds of problems. The new Clickfree HD801 Portable Backup lets users take the backup of each and every bit, organise them and finalise the backup operation automatically. No user intervention is required at all. As soon as you hook up the Clickfree HD801 Portable Backup the embedded software automatically searches for the files on your system and initiates the backup, which doesn’t happen with ordinary external hard drives like the Verbatim External Hard Drive 750 GB. Instead the Clickfree HD801 portable backup automatically categorises the backup under various sections such as photos, music, emails, text docs, spreadsheets, presentations, artwork and drawings, video, favourite websites and much more.

There are two USB connections that are meant to be used together to avoid backup crash in case of power surges. If anyhow, the backup crashes the Clickfree HD801 automatically resumes it from the last saved point. This device is produced to offer a complete automated backup but if you still want to change the default preferences then it won’t stop you. The Clickfree HD801 is available from 120GB to 500 GB.

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